... is the amount in yuan, the equivalent of about £10, that will buy you
1,000 words of ghostwritten brilliance if, like many nailbiting Chinese
white-collar workers at this time of year, you need a tautly crafted comedy
sketch in a hurry.

China’s online scribes-for-hire have become an established cottage industry at
about the same pace that e-commerce generally has soared. The first
generation of Chinese ghostwriters are attuned to domestic academic demands
and cheerfully will create everything from a high-school essay to a master’s
degree thesis on your behalf. The quality is entirely dependent on the fee,
one web-based agency